• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    what's crazier: you'd need many side by side monitors to show our solar system at this scale

    https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        edit-2
        3 months ago

        the scale is absurd for my monkey brain, its impossible for me to "get" it at all.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Spatially small =/= doesn't matter. You can't just jump from physical characteristics to values like that. What happened to being scientific?

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Yes, and you are very correct.

      It's not really possible with our minds.
      Much like with numbers, anything beyond small numbers/points our minds just turn into representative idea (a meme) which we tend to perceive on a logarithmic scale (like how people tend to think a thousand, a million, and a billion are apart by about the same-ih or only a bit differently). Thats even how our biosensory bits work, along with how we interpret/perceive information from them.

      It's great for achieving practical stuff, but it's not real.

  • kureta@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I read it as "stepson" and thought it was a low res picture of pizza. I guess I am a bit sleep deprived.